Example sentences of "[am/are] crucial to " in BNC.

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1 However , there were occasional instances where the ‘ right attitude ’ was undercut by two other interpretative processes which are crucial to the operation of discretion : the typifications used to classify the potential offender and the ‘ reasonableness of the excuse ’ .
2 Meanings are crucial to understanding how England lived with chaotic marriage and no divorce for so long before changing the rules governing personal relation-ships decisively .
3 The sacrifices they are making are crucial to the freedom of millions … as is the sacrifice you contemplated .
4 District nurses are crucial to the success of the scheme , Allen said .
5 In this chapter I have once more attempted to describe the work of two pioneers , while at the same time using their work as a platform for discussion of issues which are crucial to my own philosophy .
6 As Kolve argues , ‘ Game ’ usages are crucial to an understanding of the mediaeval conception of drama ’ ( pp. 14–15 ) .
7 Do some of the pictures which you think are crucial to understanding get rejected ?
8 It should be clear from Fig. 2.1 that the services of labour are crucial to the working of an economic system .
9 Leslie Gunde , chief economist at GKN , the vehicle components and engineering group , maintains that certain strategic industries are crucial to the economic well-being of the country .
10 Certainly , these early learning years are crucial to a child 's educational development .
11 Their stories will cover issues which they feel are crucial to the democratic movement in Haiti and to the daily lives of the population .
12 ‘ Academic respectability ’ prevailed and courses which might have begun to address the key question — what skills and expertise are crucial to the art of teaching and how can these best be learned and applied ? — were never developed .
13 Leaves are one of the most important parts of any plant , and healthy hard-working leaves are crucial to the rose .
14 They provide services that are crucial to the whole economy .
15 I think the classical perspective can be seen as incorporating three fundamental assumptions about the nature of human beings that are crucial to it position on crime and conformity : freedom , rationality and manipulability .
16 Moreover , revenues from the Cyber line are crucial to CDS .
17 The absence of vowels made it possible to confuse two words which are crucial to this problem : " eleph and " alluph .
18 In both cases the composition and osmolarity are crucial to success and it is advisable to test any new batch on a few embryos before committing the entire culture to the treatment .
19 Equally , regularity and evenness of knotting are crucial to the structural and compositional integrity of a rug : the knot-count should be the same throughout the entire rug and the rows straight and uniformly spaced .
20 There are aspects of the production of housing which are crucial to understanding basal relations , and the relationship between housing and land is obvious and will form a central part of Chapter 4 .
21 Consideration will also be given to the nature of culture and of civil society , of the domains of everyday life which are to be distinguished from ‘ economic ’ and ‘ state ’ spheres , but are crucial to the constituting of state and economy .
22 the state selectively favours those groups whose acquiescence and support are crucial to the untroubled continuity of the existing order : oligopoly capital and organized labour .
23 He argues that it is not just that the long waves each have a different pattern but that regional differentiation , and regional political and social movements , are crucial to the shape of long waves themselves .
24 However , there are certain qualities which are seen to be peculiar to physics and these are crucial to our understanding of the construction of physics as a discipline .
25 Social institutions associated with the territory are crucial to this , as are other consciousness-creating acts such as the coining of a regional name .
26 Equally disputed is Jencks 's other main conclusion that chance factors are crucial to income .
27 Attitudes to language learning in a society are crucial to success ( Strevens , 1978 ) , not only at the societal level of numbers of proficient learners but also in their effect on the individual learner 's perceptions of language learning .
28 Central-local relations , in fact , are crucial to understanding the way local government works and to recognizing its role within the wider administrative system .
29 Answers to these questions are crucial to the success of direct marketing campaigns for such products , and it is direct marketing systems based on real consumer financial information , such as Infolink 's DEFINE , which provide those essential targeting criteria .
30 The mobility of vast sums of transnational capital means that the investment strategies of TNCs are crucial to , but largely beyond the control of , domestic economic policy , and hence that state autonomy is reduced .
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